Outnumbered. Martha you may want to reserve judgment. As we keep track of the latest comings and goings, president elect trump kicking off his thank you tour, defense secretary. We are going to a point, bad dog matus as our secretary of defense was we are not announcing it so dont tell anybody. He is great. General james matus required a waiver from congress from federal law requires military personnel to be retired in 7 years before taking civilian position and has quite the marching orders, rebuild americas military might and destroy isis. A of Major National effort, to have a badly depleted military. We have no choice. We have a Strong Military and dont want to have to use it. Ideally we dont have to use it. We will destroy isis. That is a tall order for general matus. The affordable announcement is coming. That is big news. That is not the typical way of being a politician. Americans embracing and loving it. As far as the general is concerned, we try the other approach. Why not try
New six reporter shows us what crews are doing to deal with the coworkers death and what they are doing to stay safe while working. Long stretch of the i4 project is on hold today. There is no idea of when it will resume. They tell us the contract or is planning to meet the overall deadline. The parking lot is completely empty. Earlier, the crowd of workers gathered here less than 1 mile from the area were troopers say Marvin Franklin was hit by a dump truck. Fdl says he was a carpenter who was with them on the project for more than a month. The meeting they talked about safety and took time to talk group. As representative say grief counselors are also available calling it a standout and a time needed across the entire project to gather their team lets review our plans again and review the access with all the safety protocols lets make sure we have the right tools in place. We we need to have a safe project some of the protocols will include how dump trucks enter and exit the worksite
Police collected some evidence, including what apeferd to be a baseball bat. Now, what happened here today has neighbors most upset. I am shocked really. I mean, from what i understand if its a Home Invasion situation. Its a very safe neighborhood. Reporter now, the two suspects are still at large. Police are here still trying to track them down. Jim, back to you. Pat collins. Pat, thank you. A huge group of Law Enforcement officers turned out today to pay their respects to a fallen sheriffs deputy in maryland today. Hundreds, including governor larry hogan, attended the funeral for Senior Deputy patrick dailey. He died earlier this month when a man shot him inside a horford county panera bread. Dailey was a 30year vet and also served as a volunteer firefighter. His casket was carried off on a fire truck. Well have a report from that funeral in our next half hour. The status quo is unacceptable. Its unacceptable. It is costing lives and millions of district dollars in settlements to fa
R rebecca with the Montgomery County police and an unidentified suspect who saw the suspects. The male victim opened up the residence. The two suspects forced theyre way in. The 86yearold wife was home at the time. The suspects displayed handguns and ransacked the home. We saw two guys from a distance coming towards us. They were wearing black hoodies, a small under armour. Horizontal glasses, brown shoes, and keys hanging from them. Reporter again, an armed daylight Home Invasion here on our live court. The two suspects are still at large. Police are here trying to track them down. Ill be back at 5 00 with more. Chris, back to you. Thanks, pat. President obama says he doesnt think donald trump will ever be president. He went on record tuesday saying the maerng people realize the highest office in the nation is , trump took it as a compliment and is still leading in nearly every poll. He and the other republican candidates are campaigning in South Carolina ahead of saturdays primary. A
At the hospital and was released and is expected to be okay considering what happened to her. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, were going to tell you how the suspect was able to get inside the victims apartment. Were reporting live from fairfax county, darcy spencer. Jim, back to you. Thank you. Now to storm team4 coverage, folks. Get ready, were going to see rain and plenty of it starting tomorrow. It could turn into a stormy week here in the dmv. Doug . A couple days of rain here, guys, talking about tomorrow and the bigger day we think on wednesday. Some of that rain falling fairly heavily during the afternoon and overnight on wednesday. Falk abo talk about that in a second. Today a praetty nice afternoon. 52 backwards west virginia. The midatlantic dealing with nice weather today. Not much going on right now in our region, about you just down to the south we are watching this first batch of rain. You can see some heavier rain towards parts of the southeast around alabama moving into geo